Thomas Lento

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Thomas Lento is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Lento has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Communication, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Thomas Lento's work include Social Media and Politics (7 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (5 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (4 papers). Thomas Lento is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (7 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (5 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (4 papers). Thomas Lento collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and United Kingdom. Thomas Lento's co-authors include Cameron Marlow, Moira Burke, Itamar Rosenn, Eric Sun, Janet L. Wiener, Nathan Bronson, Marc A. Smith, Lilian Weng, Lada A. Adamic and Andrew T. Fiore and has published in prestigious journals such as National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media and eCommons (Cornell University).

In The Last Decade

Thomas Lento

9 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Social network activity and social well-being

2010 775 citations Moira Burke, Cameron Marlow et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Lento United States	6	857	493	220	126	121	10	1.2k
German Neubaum Germany	17	754 0.9×	523 1.1×	188 0.9×	70 0.6×	60 0.5×	47	1.1k
David Huffaker United States	14	698 0.8×	459 0.9×	117 0.5×	284 2.3×	194 1.6×	30	1.4k
K. Hazel Kwon United States	23	932 1.1×	718 1.5×	224 1.0×	66 0.5×	141 1.2×	70	1.4k
Marc Ziegele Germany	23	986 1.2×	843 1.7×	73 0.3×	68 0.5×	57 0.5×	51	1.5k
Lindsay T. Graham United States	6	745 0.9×	284 0.6×	62 0.3×	110 0.9×	56 0.5×	9	1.0k
Eric Nickell United States	10	1.3k 1.5×	281 0.6×	109 0.5×	88 0.7×	149 1.2×	12	1.8k
Veronika Karnowski Germany	14	736 0.9×	560 1.1×	63 0.3×	80 0.6×	95 0.8×	38	1.1k
Bahiyah Omar Malaysia	16	1.2k 1.4×	494 1.0×	46 0.2×	213 1.7×	203 1.7×	55	1.5k
Devan Rosen United States	12	591 0.7×	521 1.1×	96 0.4×	253 2.0×	55 0.5×	22	1.1k
Mike Schmierbach United States	23	969 1.1×	587 1.2×	63 0.3×	60 0.5×	51 0.4×	54	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Lento

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Lento

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Lento

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thomas Lento. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thomas Lento based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Thomas Lento. Thomas Lento is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Bäckström, Lars, Eytan Bakshy, Jon Kleinberg, Thomas Lento, & Itamar Rosenn. (2021). Center of Attention: How Facebook Users Allocate Attention across Friends. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 5(1). 34–41. 6 indexed citations

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Bronson, Nathan, Thomas Lento, & Janet L. Wiener. (2015). Open data challenges at Facebook. 2. 1516–1519. 12 indexed citations

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Weng, Lilian & Thomas Lento. (2014). Topic-Based Clusters in Egocentric Networks on Facebook. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 8(1). 623–626. 4 indexed citations

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Adamic, Lada A., Thomas Lento, & Andrew T. Fiore. (2012). How You Met Me. 7 indexed citations

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Lento, Thomas. (2011). How Social Are Social Movements? Social Ties, Local Network Structure, And Continued Participation In Voluntary Associations. eCommons (Cornell University).

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Burke, Moira, Cameron Marlow, & Thomas Lento. (2010). Social network activity and social well-being. 1909–1912. 775 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sun, Eric, Itamar Rosenn, Cameron Marlow, & Thomas Lento. (2009). Gesundheit! Modeling Contagion through Facebook News Feed. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 3(1). 146–153. 146 indexed citations

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Burke, Moira, Cameron Marlow, & Thomas Lento. (2009). Feed me. 945–954. 292 indexed citations

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Lento, Thomas, Howard T. Welser, Eric Gleave, & Marc A. Smith. (2007). Builders, Connectors and Lurkers: How Early Social Network Structure Shapes Subsequent Role Taking and Retention in Weblogging Communities. 1–11. 1 indexed citations

10.

Johns, Paul, et al.. (2006). How Do Blog Gardens Grow? Language Community Correlates with Network Diffusion and Adoption of Blogging Systems.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 47–54. 5 indexed citations

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